-- A Mist mn the Channel | OR, THE MYSTERY OF THE " TARIFA'S " CARGO CHAPTER XVI.--(Cont'd) "You promised me to answer truly whatever question IJ put to bestia said he, who, the more she esitated, was the more resolved to n "T ask you this question. Who gave him the clue?' "Since you will have it then,"-- Miranda drew her hands from her ace,--"my poor friend, you did," she answered gently. Charnock was more than startled. His face changed. There was some- thing even of horror in his eyes as he leaned across the table towards her. 'I?' he gasped. "I did?' "IT would have spared you the knowledge of that,"' she said with a smile, 'if only you would have al- lowed me to; but you would not. You pointed out w him a brigan- tine, which you a off Ushant." "Yes, the Tari "The Tarifa wx once the Ten Brothers, Ralph's yacht, which was supposed to have been wrecked on Rosevear."' "But the Ten Brothers was a schooner,"? urged Charnock. "I was told only a few weeks ago at Gibraltar--one of the Saleombe -- Oh yes, that's true coo. I suggested to Wilbraham, who said he was fa- miliar with the look of the boat--J suggested to him that the Tarifa | day and yesterday I sent you away. Perhaps God kept you here.' Charnock made no answer. sat down at the table opposite to Miranda and turned over the leaves aboard of her. That was why the! of the book, whilst Miranda watched look of the Tarifa was familiar to!him, i 8 him. When you told him the Tarifa |not angry yet, but she dreaded the was a Salcombe boat, he understood | moment when he should understand why it was familiar. It was the!the subject-matter of the book. The book was a collection of let- ters written by a great French lady "And blackmailed you!'" continu-|2t the Court of Louis XV. ed Charnock. . young girl-relative in Provence, and He turned back to the writing-!the letters were intended to serve table and the window. Again his|as a guide to the girl's provincial fingers played idly with the news- | inexperience. paper. For a while he was silent;|instruction as to the be st methods then he said slowly, "Do you re-|of handling men, . member what you said to me on the} froyables, dont nous ne pouvors ni balcony? That no man could offer|ne voudrons nous debarrasser,"' a woman help without doing her a|the hurt in some other way. them. "T spoke idly," interrupted Mi- | Miranda's pencil had scored lines randa. against "You spoke very truly, for here's | Charnock read out one: "Et prends bien gorde de telle- "T spoke to elude vou," said Mi-; ment diriger la conversation qu'il randa stubbornly. "It was a mere: parle t was one of the Salcombe clippers.' "Yes. Wilbraham had known Ralph at Gilbraltar, had seen the Ten Brothers, very likely had been merest clue; but he followed it up and found out." the preof."' idle faney which came into my head, | and the next moment was forgot-|of my hfe which 1 gave you in your garden,' "But I remembered it."' cried | not , ~ ; ten.' . Charnock. "It was more true lant h you thought.' "Tt was no more true than"--she hesitated. However, Charnock was not looking at her; she found it| possible to proceed--"than another | one is leading vou."' it 'What other belief ?"' Miranda nerved herself to an- swer him. "That no man would qn il ne serve a woman well, except for--for the one reason."' | The nature of that reason was ad an apparent to Charnock from the very | tone in which she spoke the word. ""And vou believed that?" he asked. |r In a movement of surprise he had writing-table. Underneath the! her newspaper was a bo ok. | did believe it." she replied. lof her face rosy with confusion, "for bited and carefully withdrawn, and she young lady checked herself suddenly, for she: formed, saw that Charnock had absently male heart, opened and was absently turning | slim, over the leaves of the book. | be. " » few ined miserable days, "Was the message of your mirror after all so false?' quite illumined. He did not how- | ever, leave the table, and he kept | fingers. "Then iter all you do need help?" he cr ed "Ne it?" "she returned with a to understand the horrible, hateful 'loud ery, and she -- stretched out | | way in which I made you care for hands across the table towards him. | me. "Indeed, indeed I need it, I des-jhave relied upon your friendship perately need it! I sent the glove! when you first came to Ronda. But I chose the worse part, and if you "Then the glove was na sham?' say that you will not*help me, why "Tt was not the glove that you|] must abide by it, and Ralph must tore; that was thrown away, but] abide by it too. not by me. I searched for it, it was nothing but truth now between you not to be found. So I tore theland n other and sent it as a substitute." friendship, I had the time I knew "And when I came, waited to dis- | to try to make you care for me in because I needed it." , ecover," he added. "whether the|the other way, one reason held me to your service. | fylly, and hatetully I suc eoedod-_"" and to Miranda's surprise Char- ou see,' she agreed. '"'really | nock leaned hack in his chair. and in my heart, all the time I trusted |Jaughed loudly ard heartily for a you, for I knew you would keep} long while. your word. I knew you would say} Miranda looked, the more he laugh- I understand. = nothing. but would just wait anc wait until I told you what it was T needed done.' her. arid as he turned.the book slip- ped off the table and adel} to the But' verterday.,' * he ex- Avesterday, you the assurance which you looked for. You lieved a man would only you for the one reason. told you that the one reason held with me; yet, at that moment, you Phi gel all help and service. ri 'It's the friend I wane 'Because fut at that moment I g. understood the shame, the horror of the tricks I had played you. "Tricks ?" said Charnock. ; and as he stooped down to pick up e book he added in a voice of com- possess the, friend you "had to make stand to the last letter, so that you may decide whether you will help knowing what the wo- man is who asks your help. t down to trick you into -- for you will see if' you only open the I had won that I realized that I had cheated to win and could not & they drove me wild with indigna- tion." "Do you mean that?' exclaimed Miranda, and her downcast face righten ~ "I do indeed,". answered Char- nock. "Oh, your tricks! I almost hated you for them."' He began to laugh again as he .ecollected them. "T am so glad,' replied Miranda in the prettiest confusion, and as Charnock laughed, in a little her eat began to dance and she laugh- e "Shall I tell you what kept me at Ronda?" he said. "Becaure, in spite of yourself, every now an then yourself broke through the tricks. Because, however much you tried, you could not but reveal to! me now and then, some fleeting! face glimpse of the woman who once stood beside me in a balcony and 236 hia eflections. If there @& way' out, she confidently relied upon this man-to find it. -Once she shivered, and Charnock looked Jn: quiringly towards her: e gazing at the soiled note which lay beneath her eyes upon the table, and.saw again the picturé of Ralph" being beaten inlar:d under the sun. She began to recall his acts and a méasure to blantia for the "his wreck of their marriage. And so thinking of such satters,. she ab- sently hummed over a tune, a'soft plaintive. little melody from an opera-bouffe. She ended it and hummed it over again; until it came upon her that Charnock had been jsilent for a long time, and she looked up from the note into his He was not thinking out ng plan. He was watening her wit looked out over the flashing : singular intentness, his head thrust age-lights to the quiet of t. James's Park. It was in memory of that woman that I stayed." de was speaking with al] seri- ousness now and Miranda uttered a long trembling sigh of gratitude. "That you," she said, "thank °Now what can I do for you?" he asked, and Miranda made haste to reply. CHAFTER XVII. She showed him the scribbled note witich M. Fournier -- brought ; she told him M. Fou nier's story; how that Ralph cad run guns and ammunition frem England into Morocco on board the Tarifa; how that he had been kid- napped between M. Fournier's villa and the town-gate, how that he was not held to ransom, since no demand for ransom had come to the little} Belgian; and final'y how that it was impossible to ay ply for help to the Legation, since Ralph was al- ready guilty of a crime, and would only be rescued that way in order to suffer penal servitude in Eng- and. 'What a coil tu unravel!" said Charnock. "I know some Arabic. I could go to Morocco. I went there once, but only to Tangier. B ut Morocco? How shal] one search Morocco without a clue ?" He rested his chin upon his hand, and stared gloomily at the wall. Miranda was careful not to inter- In the margin of the book turnin over a page. sede jamais un de cés animaux sans belief which led me astray, as this) qu'on peut bien aipoeee dt 'un au- aussi si tu fais Ja cour a' Ils ont bien tort qui disent aut que deux pour faire ieme. j'amour. basket of flowers for Gib- Charnock did not notice that she knocked the newspaper off the | excluded the basket of f Rowers on items, still, without any appearance and the shve all that it should Charnock os the book: ! she whispered. Taught Ling lace; enjoying g hex intense He turned towards her, with a face! earnestness, ; ot said, the pages of the book open with his, how "Ves, but I 'don't think you have | Brasped at,' | ee "and this ak ee you I now know that I ought to __ Believe me, Mrs. Warriner,"' he and stopped to laugh again, Charnock turned abruptly towards | «; it T hed mot oro, far tha frat tne 4 9 ure uickly stops pomyghas cures: colds, heals the ads 25 c throat and | ents. sive a good time is until afterward. forward from his shoulders, his face very strained. It seemed that every fibre of his body listened and was still, so that it might hear the bet- t2r. "Who taught you that tune?' he asked in a voice of suspense. '"'Ralph," said she in some sur- prise at the question; "at least I picked it up from him." And Charnock fell back in his chair; he huddled himself in it, he let his chin drop upon his breast. e sat staring at her with eyes which seemed suddenly deep- sunk in a face suddenly grown white. And slowly, gradually it broke in upou Miranda that he held the clue after all, that that tune was the clue, that in a word Charnock knew how -- ae disappeared. kno w!" she cried in her 8 | elation. "You know! Oh, and 1 jsent you away yesterday! What if u had gone! Only to think of it! Fou know! That tune has given you the clue? It was Ralph's fa- You heard it--when? Where? Tell me!" Sanada. Excellent train service Can Use. To her eager, joyous questions | via St. Paul or Duluth to Winni- HOME DYEING has ' Charnock was silent. He did not w move. He still sat huddled in his chair, with his chin fallen on his breast, and his eves fixedly staring at her. Miranda's enthusiasm was chilled by his silence; it was suc- ceeded by fear. She became fright- ened; she picked up the note and held it out to him~ and bade it speak for her. 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